# μιμνήσκω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* μιμναίσκω (mimnaískō) — Aeolic
* μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mi-mn̥h₂-sḱe-, from the root Proto-Indo-European *mneh₂- (“to remind”), which is generally thought to be a root extension of *men- (“to remember, think”), with inchoative suffix -σκω (-skō). Cognates include μνάομαι (mnáomai, “to be mindful”), Sanskrit अम्नासिषु (amnāsiṣu), मम्नौ (mamnau, “remember, repeat in the mind”, perfect).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mim.nɛ̌ːs.kɔː/ → /mimˈnis.ko/ → /mimˈnis.ko/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mim.nɛ̌ːs.kɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /mimˈne̝s.ko/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /mimˈnis.ko/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /mimˈnis.ko/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /mimˈnis.ko/

### Verb

μῐμνήσκω • (mĭmnḗskō)
* (active voice)
** (transitive) to remind [with accusative ‘someone’ and genitive ‘of something’], to put in mind
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.38
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.103
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.31
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.407
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.169
*** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1123
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 15.36
** (transitive) to recall something to memory, to make famous
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.13
*** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 878
* (middle and passive voice)
** (transitive) to call to mind, to remember [with genitive or (less commonly) accusative ‘something, someone’]
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.222
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.527
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.168
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1057
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 633D
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Leochares 7
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.18
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 492
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 61
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.25
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 31A
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.390
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.581
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.62
*** 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 1461
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.151
*** Second Homeric Hymn to Dionysus 2
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.192
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ezekiel 18.22
*** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 10:31
*** New Testament, Revelation 16:19
*** to remember [with infinitive ‘that ...’]
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.364
**** 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 202
**** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 495
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.39
**** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 27B
*** (after Homer) to remember [with participle ‘doing’]
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 11.15
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 830
**** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 244
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.3
**** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1107
*** (intransitive) to bear in mind, to not forget
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.8
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.66
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.153
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.263
**** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 422
** (transitive) to remember aloud, to mention [with genitive ‘something’]
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.331
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.492
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.39
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.118
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 310
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.36
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.45
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.47
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.37
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 21
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 19
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.29
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 3.28
** (transitive) to give heed to [with genitive ‘someone’]
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.267
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.177
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.361
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.222
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.246
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.129
*** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 17.58
*** 1 CE – 200 CE, Aelius Herodianus, On Peculiar Style 2.79

#### Derived terms

* ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō)
* ἐπαναμιμνῄσκω (epanamimnḗiskō)
* παρυπομιμνήσκω (parupomimnḗskō)
* προαναμιμνήσκω (proanamimnḗskō)
* προμιμνήσκω (promimnḗskō)
* προσαναμιμνήσκω (prosanamimnḗskō)
* προσυπομιμνήσκω (prosupomimnḗskō)
* συναναμιμνήσκω (sunanamimnḗskō)
* ὑπομιμνήσκω (hupomimnḗskō)

#### Related terms

* μαίνομαι (maínomai)
* μένος (ménos)
* μνάομαι (mnáomai)
* μνῆμα (mnêma)
* ὀμναῖσαι (omnaîsai)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μιμνήσκω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 953-4

### Further reading

* “μιμνήσκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μιμνήσκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “μιμνήσκω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* μιμνήσκω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* μιμνήσκω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “amnesia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. allude to idem, page 25.bear idem, page 66.bethink oneself idem, page 76.bring idem, page 99.mention idem, page 524.mind idem, page 530.recall idem, page 678.recollect idem, page 680.record idem, page 681.remember idem, page 692.
* “μιμνήσκω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011